wind-eye
04.04.03, 21:06
It seems to me that doubling the preceding consonant has the aim to shorten
the following vowel. Shorten so as not to spell it as a long vowel, e.g. [e]
instead of [ei], [o] instead of [ou] and so on.
Is it an result of Latin impact on English or Germanic languages?
Have similar changes occured in Slavonic languages? How did Polish language
deal with short and long vowels?
thx n advns
sorry za English, skopiowane z